Garment-stay.



H. S. BREWINGTON.

GARMENT STAY. APPLICATION FILEDMAY I7, 1912. RENEWED JULY 28.1914.

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HENRY S. BREWINGTON, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO SPIRELL-A.

COMPANY, OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYL- VANIA.

GARMENT-STAY.

Patented Apr. 25, T916.

Application filed May 1'7, 1912, Serial No. 697,876. Renewed July 28, 1914. Serial No. 853,691.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, HENRY S. BREWING- 'roN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore city, State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Tmprovements in Garment-Stays, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment stays,

and particularly to wire stays for corsets and similar articles of wearing apparel.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved garment stay of the character described which can be readily manufactured, which is flexible in all directions and conforms readily to the curvature of the body, which contains a long length of wire in a stay of given dimensions, which is resilient and offers considerable resistance to bending strains, which is not liable to take a permanent set on short bends, and which is materially reinforced along its edges.

The invention comprises the garment stay hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, which illustrate one embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 represents a plan view of one face of the stay; Fig. 2 is an edge view thereof as it appears from the left in Fig. l; and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the other face of the stay.

Referring to the drawings, the stay shown is formed of wire, a single strand or wire being illustrated, which is bent back and forth from edge to edge of the stay to form a series of transversely extending connecting portions or crossings which are joined at the edges of the stay by loops or eyes. The crossing portions, one of which is illustrated at 6, may becurved in various ways and at various angles, but are shown as substantially normal to the length of the stay and substantially straight from edge to edge thereof. Each edge of the stay is formed of a succession of alternately disposed open and closed eyes or loops. For example, the left hand edge of the stay shown in Fig. 1 consists of one series of closed eyes or loops 5, 5", 5*, 5, 5 5, and 5 which alternate with a second series of open loops 10, 10 10", 10", 10 10, and 10 while the right hand edge of the stay is formed of one series of closed eyes or loops 8, 8 8, 8, 8 8 and 8, which alternate with a second series of open loops 7, 7, 7, 7, 7 7 and 7. The open loops 7, 7, etc., 10, 10*, etc., are convex toward the edges of the stay and each one thereof is joined at one end to one of the crossing portlons 6 and at its other end merges into one of the closed eyes or loops 5, 5, etc., 8, 8*, etc. The closed eyes or loops 5, fi etc., 8, 8*, etc., each overlap the next ad acent crossing portion of the wire. For example, as shown in Figs. 1 and 8, the closed eye or loop 5 connected to the first crossing portion 6 of the wire overlaps the succeeding crossing portion, indicated at 9, closely adjacent to that end thereof which is connected to the next open loop, marked 10. The closed eyes or loops also extend inwardly from the outer edge of the stay to ward the center line thereof, that is, they project laterally inwardly from the edges of the stay, and they also all lie in the same common plane, which is a plane parallel to the general plane of the stay and on one face thereof. This brings all of the crossing portions 6 of the wire on the same face of the stay, which is the opposite face from that on which lie the closed eyes or loops.

The stay is in one sense formed of a succession of similar sections, which alternate in reverse arrangement. In other words, each section consists of a crossing portion 6 of the wire which at one end is connected to or merges into a closed eye or loop 5 and at the other end is connected to or merges into an open'loop 7. The first section has the closed eye or loop 5 at one edge of the stay and the next section has its closed eye or loop at the other edge of the stay and joined to the open loop of the preceding section, the result being a continuous series of loops along each edge of the stay.

The edges of the stay consist of a succession of rounded portions of the wire so that sharp points or edges are avoided and there is therefore no liability of damaging a pocket in which the stay is inserted. The stay is flexible in all directions and successive portions thereof are mutually supported by the overlapping of the closed eyes or loops on adjacent crossing portions of the wire so that it is materially reinforced along both edges. It may be readily manufactured, it contains a long length of wire in a stay of given dimensions and is not liable to take a permanent set on short bends.

What I claim is 1. A garment stay, comprising wire bent back and forth from edge to edge of the stay to form a series of loops or eyes and transverse connecting portions or crossings, each transverse portion being bent at one end to form a closed loop or eye and at the other end to form an open loop, there .being an open and a closed loop for each tion of the Wire.

3. A garment. stay, comprising wire bent back and forth from edge to edge of the stay to form a series of loops or eyes and transverse connecting portions or crossings, each transverse portion being bent at one end to form a closed loop or eye and at the other end to form an open loop, there being an open and a closed loop for each crossing portion of the Wire, each closed loop being continuous with the open loop of the next ad acent crossing longitudinally of the stay.

4. A garment stay, comprising wire bent back and forth from edge to edge of the stay to form a series of loops or eyes and transverse connecting portions or crossings, each transverse portion being bent at one end to form a closed loop or eye and at the other end to form an open loop, there being an open and a closed loop for each crossing portion of the wire, each closed loop being con tinuous with the open loop of the next adjacent crossing in one direction and overlapping the neXt adjacent crossing in the other direction longitudinally of the stay.

5. A garment stay comprising wire bent back and forth to form a series of loops or eyes and transverse connecting portions or crossings, each transverse portion being connected at one end to an open loop and at the other end to a closed eye, each closed eye being connectedto anopen loop of the next succeeding transverse portion of the wire.

6. A garment stay comprising Wire bent back and forth across thestay to form a series of transverse portions and two series of alternately disposed open and closed eyes or loops lying along the edges of the stay.

7. A garment stay, comprising Wire bent back and forth across the stay to form a series of transverse portions and open and closed loops lying along the edges of the stay, each open loop being disposed in transverse alinement with a closed loop on the other edge of the stay.

8. A garment stay, comprising wire bent to form a series of open and closed eyes or loops disposed alternately along each edge of the stay, and a series of transverse portions connecting the eyes or loops along opposite edges of the stay, each closed loop lying opposite an open loop on the other edge of the stay.

9. A garment stay, comprising wire. bent back and forth to form a series of closed eyes or loops lying along the edges of the stay and connected-by transverse portions or crossings, the closed eyes or loops lying on one face of the stay and the crossing portions on the other face thereof.

10. A garment stay, comprising wire bent to form a succession of similar sections, each section consisting of a transverse portion having an open loop at one end and a closed eye or loop at the other.

11. A garment stay, comprising wire bent to form a succession of similar sections, each section consisting of a transverse portion having an open loop at one end and a closed eye or loop at the other, said sections in order being in reversed position with the closed eye or loop of one section connected to the open loop of the succeeding section.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY S. BREWINGTON.

Witnesses:

MARY L. CARR, MARY M. MAGRAW.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. O." 

